activities

Weekly Meeting

The importance of weekly meeting can be clearly seen when it was started in the division's constitution that the weekly meeting must be carried out at least 25 times a year. The weekly meeting is usually held from 8:00AM to 11:30PM, every Saturday or Friday. All members including the ambulance and nursing must attend the meeting in the division's T-shirt or in uniform for the fist Saturday.

The weekly meeting is scheduled well, systematically and thoroughly. It is always changed and upgraded so that the targets of weekly meeting can be achieved, where the members can get maximum benefits. The targets of weekly meeting are:
• to train and upgrade the members' performance in footdrill, stretcher drill, home nursing and first aid.
• to ensure that the members get enough and latest first aid knowledge.
• to train the members to be a caliber leader.
• to tighten the members' friendship

During weekly meetings, practices such as footdrill, stretcher drill, short case, long case and home nursing were carried out. Lectures will also be given by the doctors, nurses, medical officers, St. John Ambulance Malaysia officers and senior members, so that members will be able to work efficiently and accurately.

Sometimes social activities such as games, cleaning campaign, stamina training etc. are added into weekly meeting too to make the meeting more meaningful.

Public Duty

St. John Ambulance Malaysia is a voluntary organisation, so public duty is part of the St. John Ambulance Malaysia of Keat Hwa High School Division’s activities. The aim of public duty is to help the victim of any tragedy.

This public duty can only be carried out by the cadet and adult members while the recruit do not have the rights to be involved in public duty except for the special case. While on duty, the members involved must have their uniforms on and discipline must be on tiptop condition. As a first aider, they must have the intention and are responsible to help the neediest. It is difficult for the members to do their duties well due to hot weather. Sometimes raining makes it even more difficult. Despite all the obstacles faced, the members always try their very best to give the best service for the community because they always believe in 'Service For Mankind'. All the public duties and other matters involving public duties were managed by The Attendance and Public Duties Supervisor as well as his assistant. These were controlled by school too. After obtaining approval from the school, the supervisor will send the members for the duties. Public duties usually consist of an adult member who is the leader of the duty. The leader will approach the organizer to discuss the duties' matters. The leader will then send a report to the supervisor.

Annual Trip and Visits

Visiting is an activity that is carried out by the St. John Ambulance Malaysia of Keat Hwa Secondary School division every year. The first visit was made in 1978. The visits are usually organized by the form 3 members at the end of the year after their PMR exam so that they can learn the ways to handle activities. This provides them an opportunity to learn to cooperate. Besides that, visiting is also one of the division's social activities because it can foster the relationship between senior and junior members.

Usually, visits organized are divided into several kinds. There are educational visits, picnics, social visits. Every year, the objectives of the visits are different and set by the organized committees. Visits to factories, institutes and other places are concordant to the objective, where members can gain more general knowledge besides first aid knowledge. Visits to Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Perak, Cameron Highlands, Melaka, and other states have been organized by the division. The division also holds picnics at several attractive places. Beside enjoy themselves, the members also can reduce the stress after exam and get away the hustle and bustle of cities' life. The clean and refreshing air, the flora and fauna added to the members' enjoyment. While involving in welfare activities visiting are regular. Visits to old folks' home, orphanages, drug addict rehabilitation centers are among the visits done. During the visits, our members would try their best to do charity by the donating money and food, helping them to clean up their place and entertained them.

Visits were also organized with the intention to foster closer to relationship with other divisions. The members will visit other schools and know the members' of the school better. They also discuss history of both teams, activities done, administration systems and problems faced.

Chinese New Year Gathering

Chinese New Year is a celebration celebrated by all the races, especially the Chinese, in this country. St. John Ambulance Malaysia of Keat Hwa High School Division celebrate this meaningful celebration every year by having new year gathering. This activity is a social activity that is carried out every year.

It is a good opportunity for all members including the ex-members to gather and have a good time together. During the new year gathering, lots of food is served. Members can enjoy themselves while eating the mouth-watering food. The atmosphere is so merry and all you hear is just the laughter and what you see is just smiling and happy faces. Games were played so that members can know each other better. Dancing and singing are also common in the gathering.

Farewell Gathering

This gathering is made up to celebrate the farewell of the form five and form upper six members. This farewell gathering is a must and should be carried out every year. Usually, this gathering is held between March and May so that form five and form upper six members can concentrate in their studies after the gathering. In this farewell gathering , lots of games were played so that relationship between form five , form upper six and junior members can be consolidated. The games usually are divided into indoor and outdoor games. Lunch was served because the gathering is usually form morning until evening. Before lunch, outdoor games were carried out then after lunch comes the indoor games. These games usually leave a sweet memory for all those form five and form upper six members. Last but no least, souvenir were given to the form five and form upper six members. Then they will give their speech. The gathering ended after the souvenir giving ceremony.

First Aid Training Course

N.C.O Training Course

The Annual Inspection Parade and Enrollment Ceremony

The school compound will have a new look when it's time for this ceremony. School compound will be decorated as beautiful as possible with the colourful flags. The members' spirit was high when song was played and they look very smart in their uniforms. This is just a brief description during The Inspection Parade and Enrollment Ceremony of St. John Ambulance Malaysia of Keat Hwa High School Division.

The Inspection Parade and Enrollment Ceremony is one of the most important activities handled by the St. John Ambulance Malaysia of Keat Hwa High School Division. All members must attend the ceremony. Usually this ceremony was carried out on September after the first aid exam which organized by either this division or Kedah St. John HQ for all the members in this division. But the preparation such as Kawalan Kehormatan training (which started on 1996, trained by Rejimen Askar) will started early in July.

This ceremony must be carried out every year so that the recruits that passed their Basic Cadet First Aid test can pledge in front of the Area Officer before they can officially become the member of St. John Ambulance Malaysia , so this ceremony means a lot to the probationary cadet members. Beside that, during this ceremony the N.C.O. or the ordinary member will be promoted. Those who have good performance through out the year will certainly be promoted. A ceremony of prize giving to the members that got the highest marks in the exam before the ceremony will also be carried out.

Among the guests who were invited to the ceremony are the St. John Ambulance Malaysia's officers, principal of the school, teachers, V.I.P , parents, St. John Ambulance Malaysia members from other division, teachers and ex-members. Normally, the officers will go to St. John's Room to have a look and check for the division's report such as annual report, accounts, duty and etc.

Besides, there is an exhibition and performance after the ceremony. Last will be the photo taking section.

The Annual Intersquad First Aid and Home Nursing Competition

The Intersquad First Aid Competition is another important activity which must be participated by the members. This competition is build so that the potential in the members themselves can be displayed.

The Intersquad First Aid Competition level is almost the same with the National Competition level. The organizing committee will try their best to make the competition successful so let competitors get used with national level's atmosphere. Participants of this competition are the cadet members which consists of the ambulance and nursing. All the members are divided into groups which consists of 4 members. The groups are named as squads. Each squad has a leader and 3 other members. This competition is only participated by form1 and form2 junior members. A squad starts training from the midyear until the end of the year. The training session is from 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. any three days before the year 2000, but now it's only train on every Friday by either morning or afternoon. During the training session, form 4 members who act as trainers will give lectures about first aid and provide practical training to them.

Through this Intersquad First Aid Competition training, the participants learnt a lot of first aid knowledge and skills. The participants will have to go through a test which consists of uniform test, foot drill test, short case, and written test. The only difference is the ambulance will take part in long case and stretcher drill while the nursing will take part in home nursing.

The Intersquad First Aid Competition is usually help in the end of the year so that participants will have enough time to prepare themselves. The 2 days competition will begin with the opening ceremony in the morning, leaders, Northern Kedah area officers, headmaster, judges, advisory teachers, ex-members will be invited .

Annual Camp and Campfire

At the end of every year, every member is certainly busy preparing for the annual camp. The annual camp provides an ideal atmosphere and a basic base for one to learn how to be independent, responsible and has the high spirit. In fact, it also provides an opportunity for the members to learn leadership. The participants have to go through tough obstacles. One's personality is clearly visible, patience is interfere, learning how to tolerate and cooperate are just another part in the annual camp.

This division's first annual camp was held in 1976. The encouraging reaction from the members throughout the year encourage the committee to do better and have listed the annual camp as a compulsory activity.At 10th April 1988, this annual activity was held outside the school area for the first time and this continued for seven consecutive years. Only after those seven years, the annual camp was held back inside the school compound due to the division's 35th anniversary.

The annual camp usually consists of several days and devide into training camp and holiday camp. During this several days, participants will certainly learn lots of knowledge that are not taught in other activities. All members are eligible to take part in this camp. Participants were divided into four groups where a group will comprise a group leader, quarter master, treasurers, hygiene master and food master. Besides that, a sub-camp commander will be selected to give advice for the groups.

Every year, a theme for the camp will select. Every groups have their own slogan, team song, designed flag and etc. During the camp, campers not only learnt gadget making, but also jungle cooking, singing, dancing, stamina training and etc. There will a camp fire on the fourth day. A variety of contests will be carried out, such as foot drill contest, cooking contest, Mr and Miss St. John contest and so on. On the last day, closing ceremony and prize giving ceremony are must.

First Aid and Home Nursing Competition by Head Quater of SJAM

Every year, our division participants include nursing cadet, nursing adult, ambulance cadet and ambulance adult are sent to compete in the this competition organised by Head Quater of St. John Ambulance Malaysia without failed.

The teams sent to represent St. John Ambulance Malaysia of Keat Hwa High School Divisionl will compete in the Kedah Northern Region Area First Aid Competition. If they succeed at that level, then they will go on to the state and national level. They even can go up to the international level if they achieve success in the national level.

In 1975, this division sent its first team to participate for the first time in the Kedah Northern Region Area First Aid Competition. The team then became the champion. This success gave a kick to the division to do much more better. In 1976, this division sent its first ambulance cadet team to participate in the competition. The both ambulance and nursing cadet teams became the champion. Both teams represented Kedah to the national level's first aid competition. The division achieved much glory success in the state and area competition in the following years.

In 1980, the nursing cadet team became the national champion and the ambulance cadet did it in the following year.In 1991, all the four teams sent by the division became the champion in the area and state level's first aid competition. Later, they represented Kedah to the national first aid competition and the Kedah's Contingent was the national champion. The four teams were ambulance cadet, nursing cadet, ambulance adult and nursing adult.In 1993, all the three teams sent by the division to participate in the state level's first aid competition became state champion. The nursing cadet later became national champion and represented Malaysia to the first aid competition between Malaysia and Singapore.1994,the glorious achievement was once again achieved by the division. senior Heng Tian Poh won The Best Leader and his team won in stretcher drill in the International First Aid Competition. 2000, again our division sent three teams which are nursing cadet, nursing adult and ambulance adult to the national competition at Yayasan Selangor, Klang and they made Kedah won as national champion.

To have all these good results, our divisional competitors and trainers work extremely hard and put a lot of efforts in the competition every year. Nomarlly, exco will pick the members who shown the good results in their Intersquad Competition. Then, the members who are selected will go to the 2 days 'selection competition training'. From the training, trainers, members of DAB and ex-memebers will select the best 5 members and formed them in a group for the particular of team. Come to second stage is decide who is the leader and the numbers (no. 2, 3, 4, 5). The venue for training always in our school, starts from 2.30pm to 6pm three times a week. Sometimes, competitors will go to Kedah St. John HQ and Alor Setar General Hospital for advanced training. When they have training in school, stamina training will be the first then come to lecture of first aid and follow by case, home nursing and foot drill. The whole competition training will always incharge by a head coach and his or her group members.

Schools Uniform Units Marching Competition by JPN

Cadets Camp by Head Quater of SJAM

Annual Exhibition for Keat Hwa High School Open Day

When school reopen in January after a long holidays, Keat Hwa High School will organize one day Open Day for the purpose of let form 1 students know and get the information about those uniform units and societies so that they can enroll and join the units or society that they interest. This activity also open for all students, teachers, students’ parents and publics.

Before a week, the committee will do preparation such as collect all Keat Hwa St. John’s activities t-shirts and flags, uniforms ( include previous design), badges, certificates, photos, trophies, first aid books and materials, first aid documentary video tape or vcd; polish uniform test boots and nursing shoes, make souvenirs, and training for the performance of marching and case. Normally, our division will use one or half of a classroom for the exhibition. On that day, the Casualty Circle do some make-ups like the wounds, injuries and amputation, not only for exhibit but also for audiences. The Flag Signaling team teach audiences play the flag while committee will teach them perform CPR and AR with the dummy. Besides, Ambulance Car that borrowed from Kedah HQ has shown to audiences. The performances will always attract them.

One things that our division proud of is, from 11 uniform units, St. John has the most students enroll every year. There have 30% to 40% of the form 1 students (around 100 to 200) decide to become a St. John member.

Annual Sports Day Marching for Keat Hwa High School Sports Day

The Keat Hwa High School’s Sports Day will held around March or April. All the uniform units have to participate in the Sports Day Marching. 32 members include one Commander and one Flag Leader will selected. They have to wear in full uniform and marching glove. The training starts one month before the sports day; members train very hard due to it is a competition actually and we always want to do the best in all activities.

Annual Inspection Parade for Keat Hwa High School Speech Day

Keat Hwa High School will invite DYM Tuanku Sultan and DYM Tuanku Sultanah Kedah to Speech Day every year. So, our division must sent around 15 members for the purpose of Inspection Parade in front the school hall. The members should wear full uniform and marching glove and ready in a group at the specific area. The commander normally is our Divisional Superintendent (Penguasa Divisi), he or she must wear in officer uniform. Members just have to stand steadily while the commander must solute until Tuanku walk (berangkat masuk) into school hall.

Social

St. John Ambulance Malaysia of Keat Hwa Secondary School's Division is a team like a big family that comprises members from different races. Despite this, the members had always helped each other and are undivided through eternity. This condition was made possible by the social activities carried out throughout the year.

Many social activities had been planned and carried out throughout the year. The activities can be divided into three categories. The first category is the activities that were carried out involving all the members in the division. The reason of carrying out such activities is to tighten the relationship and encourage the value of co-operation among the senior and junior members. The committee always know the importance of tolerance, co-operation and unity, so such activities have been assured to be carried out perfectly every year.

The second category is the activities is the activities organised by other society or other uniform units in this school or other schools. No teams can survive if they do not mix around with others. So the division also pays special attention to the relationship with other teams. By attending such activities, we gained lots of new knowledge.

The third category is the activities which need members to be sent to give lectures on first aid to other society, uniform units and also community associations when invited. After going through such kind of activities, members of this division will spread the first aid knowledge to the community.

Through the activities, the division's members learn to be more independent, have wide knowledge, have the ability to be leader and have widen and open mind. The division also hopes that through these activities, members won't get involve in unhealthy activities.